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alec stewart stewart
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Joined: Dec 23, 2003
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hi everyone
the thing i am trying to achieve is that when onmouseover on a link a message comes in status bar displaying the href of the link,now i want to extract that message in a variable and use as alert(a)
i don't want this
window.status="hi there"
as i don't want to set any message i want to extract the original message when we put over the mouse or when that link is clicked the original status bar messages which comes .
like when we click on a link status bar shows the href or other href which the link is furthur redirected.

please friends help me on this i severly needs this thing
thanks in advance
Bear Bibeault
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If I understand what you are asking for, there is no way to get that information from the browser.


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Eric Pascarello
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Why don't you just reference the href of the link? That is what is placed in the status bar.

Eric
 
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